Shown in last weekend's home-opening loss to Dayton, Morgan Langley scored the game-winning goal in the 52nd minute Saturday night as the Harrisburg City Islanders snapped a three-game winless skid with a 2-1 victory at Sacramento.
(Sean Simmers, PennLive.com)

Derschang's score, which came in the fifth minute off a Yann
Ekra through ball, staked the City Islanders to a 1-0 lead. ... Garret Pettis
assisted on Langley's goal, which snapped a 1-1 tie. ... Adam Jahn, a Sacramento
native on loan from Major League Soccer's San Jose

Robbie Derschang collected his first professional finish in his first professional start as the Harrisburg City Islanders went on to defeat Sacramento 2-1.PennLive.com files

Earthquakes, tied the game
in the 32nd minute when he nodded in Max Alvarez's restart from the
right wing. ... Nick Noble preserved the victory for the City Islanders (1-2-1, 4
points) by making three saves. ... Dominik Jakubek finished with one stop for the
expansion Republic (2-3-1, 7 points).

PIVOTAL SEQUENCE

Locked in a scoreless tie early in the second half, the City
Islanders were able to retake the lead in the 52nd minute when
Jakubek's clearance was claimed in the Harrisburg end by defender Pedro
Ribeiro. Ribeiro chipped a ball forward to the stripe that was won and promptly
sent forward to Pettis by Matt Bahner. Pettis relinquished possession, sending
a ball wide that Langley was able to control. Once in control, Langley freed
himself on the right wing by spinning around back Jack Avesyan. Finding enough
space, the fourth-year winger completed the scoring sequence and bagged the
eventual game-winner by slotting a ball toward the inside of the right post
that skipped between Jakubek's legs.

STOPPAGE TIME

The City Islanders collared the season series 1-0. ... The
sellout crowd was the largest regular-season gathering in USL PRO history,
easily surpassing the nearly 10,700 Orlando drew late last season. ... Ribeiro,
who was effective throughout, left the game in the 69th minute with
a hamstring injury and was replaced by Neil Shaffer. Shaffer's entrance pushed

Bahner, who started in the midfield, to center back. ... Bill Becher's club will
open a month-long, four-game homestand on Friday night at Skyline Sports
Complex against Charleston. ... Jahn played alongside former Mechanicsburg High
School All-American Bobby Warshaw at Stanford. ... The City Islanders had two
chances to add to their lead, but Derschang's cross was just too long for
reserve Clesio Bauque. Bauque had a later chance, but fired wide. ... Noble made
two dandy saves in the final 25 minutes, one each on George Fochive and Nemanja
Vukovic, as the Republic upped the offensive pressure. ... Derschang and Pettis
were making their first starts of the season. ... Edinho Junior and Jimmy
McLaughlin also came off the bench for the City Islanders, replacing Pettis and
Ekra. ... Noble picked up his record 25th victory in a Harrisburg
uniform. ... The City Islanders also started 0-2-1 in 2006 and 2010, but fell to
0-3-1 both seasons.

YOU DON'T SAY

"That was nice. Much needed." — Becher

"Every year you go through rough stretches. Two, three, four
games where you don't get results. Every team goes through that ... but at the beginning
of the season it's magnified. If it happens at the very beginning or very end,
the microscope's on." — Becher

"They put the pressure on us the last 30 minutes. They were
down a goal, but we did the same thing to [Orange County during Thursday night's 4-1 loss] and
put pressure on them, but we got caught twice on counters. We had two chances
on counters, but we didn't put the game away. We just didn't do what [Orange County]
did to us." — Becher

"We ruined the Highmark Stadium debut [in Pittsburgh] last
year and we ruined this one this year." — Becher

"Extraordinary event put on tonight by @SacRepublicFC with
over 20K in attendance. All credit to [Sacramento president/founder] Warren
Smith and his talented staff." — USL president Tim Holt tweeted